Word: lovewit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...follows: Subtle, the alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Dol. his wife, K. K. Smith '04 Face, the housekeeper, P. E. Osgood '04 Dapper, a laywer's clerk, A. L. Thayer '04 Drugger, a tobacco man, D. C. Manning 1L. Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight, R. S. Wallace '04 Lovewit, master of the house, H. S. Deming '05 Pertinax Surly, a gamester, R. I. Underhill '06 Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor of Amsterdam, H. McI. Holmes '06 Ananias, a deacon, H. P. Johnson '05 Kastril, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant, a widow, R. B. Gring '05 First Officer...
Written by Jonson in 1610, the play satirizes the folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity...
...plot in the main is as follows: Lovewit, after the death of his wife, retires to the country, leaving his house in the care of Jeremy, his servant. Jeremy forms a partnership with Subtle, a sham alchemist, and setting up furnaces and apparatus in Lovewit's house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes...
...since previously announced, has been greatly changed, and is now as follows: Subtle, the Alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Face, the Housekeeper, P. E. Osgood '04 Dol, their colleague, K. K. Smith '04 Dapper, a lawyer's clerk. A. L. Thayer '04 Drugger, a tobacco man. D. C. Manning 1L. Lovewit, master of the house. H. S. Demming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a knight, R. S. Wallace '04 Pertinax Surly, a gamester, R. I. Underhill '06 Tribulation Wholesome, a pastor of Am- sterdam, H. McI. Holmes '06 Ananias, a deacon, H. P. Johnson '05 Kastril, the angry boy, T. P. Smith...
...Delta Upsilon Fraternity, has been chosen as follows: Subtle, the Alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Face, the House-keeper, J. A. Greene '05 Dol Common, their colleague, P. E. Osgood '04 Dapper, a Lawyer's clerk, R. S. Wallace '04 Drugger, a Tobacco-man, D. C. Manning 1L. Lovewit, Master of the House, H. S. Deming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a Knight, W. G. Baer '04 Pertinax Surly, a Gamester, C. W. Randall '05 Tribulation Wholesome, a Pastor of Amsterdam, R. I. Underhill '06 Ananias, a Deacon there, C. Mitchell '06 Kastrill, the angry boy, T. P. Smith '05 Dame Pliant...